Activities

Seminars and conferences

Workshops, seminars and conferences

21 March 2016: First meeting of the RTPI CNRS Biodiversité Caraïbe

22-24 March 2016: First Caribaea Initiative Research & Conservation Workshop (RCW 2016) : “Animal invasive species in the Antilles: the relevance of scientific research to conservation” Centre International de Séjour Martinique – MORE INFORMATION

19-23 June 2016: Caribaea Initiative at the ATBC 2016 conference in Montpellier – France
Caribaea Initiative sponsored a symposium “Developing research capacity on biodiversity and conservation: a Caribbean challenge” during the 53rd Conference of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation.

May 31 – June 03, 2017 : Second Caribaea Initiative Research & Conservation Workshop (RCW 2017), co-organised with the Ross University School of Veterinary Medicine (RUSVM) in Saint Kitts and Nevis and the RTPI CNRS-INEE “Caraibes”. MORE INFORMATION

May 28 – June 01, 2018: Third Caribaea Initiative Research & Conservation Workshop (ACI-RCW 2018) in Guadeloupe, co-organised with the Université des Antilles, Guadeloupe. MORE INFORMATION

May 31, 2017: Training session for students who attended the 2nd Caribaea Initiative Research & Conservation Workshop (St Kitts and Nevis)

May 28, 2018: Training session for students who attended the 3rd Caribaea Initiative Research & Conservation Workshop (Guadeloupe)

Supported students

The Caribaea Initiative student fellowship program

Caribaea Initiative’s Master and PhD fellowship program is intended to support promising young people from the Caribbean who are motivated in becoming future regional experts in key disciplines of Conservation Biology.

► Supervisor : Dr. Angela Fields – Lecturer in department of Biological and Chemical Science at the University of the West Indies (UWI)

► Summer project supported in 2016

Renata and Kristie working on gobies behavior.

5. Research subject: “Variations in the Social Behavior of Coral-Dwellers and Sponge-Dwellers of Elacatinus prochilos.”Student : Kristie Alleyne
Localization : Barbados

► Supervisors : Renata Mazzei – PhD student at the University of Neuchâtel and Dr. Henri Vallès – Lecturer in the department of Biological and Chemical Sciences at the University of the West Indies (UWI)

► Summer project supported in 2016

Research projects

How do we select research projects ?

Caribaea Intiative is supporting basic or applied research projects that contribute to increase knowledge on Caribbean animal biodiversity, and more particularly projects which are based on cooperation between local and external research teams. All supported projects must include in the mid-term a part on training local students, at various stages in the curriculum (bachelor, master, Ph.D). Relevance to a conservation issue is not mandatory for a project to be supported, if the project offers an opportunity to train a student in one of several key disciplines in conservation biology. The relevant projects are identified by the Scientific Council of the association, which is taking the initiative in approaching and establishing links between potential partners. There is no direct submission procedure for research projects.